Day 3… Exhausted.

I’ve had a string of about 5 or 6 days in which I haven’t slept much for one reason or another. I’m a bad sleeper, and I easily fall into wake up habits… like waking up at 2 in the morning repeatedly. The combination of sleeping poorly, returning from spring break, being in the heat of UIL, and now starting P90X3 has left my body super tired.

I’m happy to report that yesterday’s Agility X left my butt and inner thighs getting progressively more sore as the day has progressed! 🙂

X3 YOGA

I’ve been excited all day to try out this incarnation of yoga, interested in how my own background would affect this half hour. This version is heavily influenced by Ashtanga and, while only 30 minutes, gives a good sampling of the Primary Series. Generally, when I practice, I’m doing the full series (with some other goodies mixed in) and spend a solid hour+ doing yoga. The 30 minute window seemed far too quick, but I’m sure for the non-yoga-geek it is wonderful! I was telling my dude afterward that, although short, I could totally see myself popping in this DVD on days that I want a quick/fairly intense yoga workout.

• Child’s Pose
• Downward Dog to Forward Bend
• 3 Sun Salutations
• Sun Salutation to Crescent
• Airplane Over Leg – While in crescent, hold arms out like an airplane while leaning over bent leg.
• Sun Salutation
• Warrior 1
• Warrior 2
• Reverse Warrior
• Bound Side Angle Pose
• Sun Salutation B
• Warrior 3
• Half Moon – I HATE half moon… But it’s fun to work on. 🙂
• Twisted Half Moon – If I hated half moon, then I despise this one. It’s really difficult, and I have a feeling I’ll have to address this in my daily practice if I ever plan on succeeding in this awkward balance pose.
• Standing Splits – I’m getting much better at these!
• Crescent Pose
• Wide Leg Forward Fold with Toe Bind – My head touched the ground today!!!
• Triangle
• Twisted Triangle
• Tree Pose
• Extended Leg with Toe Bind
• Ted’s Chair – This was neat! I’ve done a posture like this at a Vinyasa class before, so the pose was not new. However, the variation of turning the posture into an arm balance was wildly exciting! I can’t wait to work on this new arm balance! It’s so fun to be upside down. 🙂
• Crow – Love this one too!
• Vinyasa to Floor
• Child’s Pose
• Cat-Cow
• Bird Dog to Dog Dancer
• Camel
• Figure 4 Series – part of the seated series that works the hamstrings.
• Plow or Shoulder Stand
• Fish – Usually I’m afraid of fish, but my back has been getting progressively stronger through my daily yoga. I tried it today and was successful.
• Shavasana

I was glad to see that a pretty solid mini-routine was designed for P90X3. Kudos to the the creators of this particular workout! Tomorrow is The Challenge… Push ups and pull ups… Time for bed so I can have any sort of energy to “Bring it!”

(Just FYI… I think saying “Bring it!” is super cheesy, and I only type it with the most severe and dorkiest sarcasm possible. 🙂  )

Stay healthy!